[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

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On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:17:48 +0100
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:00:37 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote:
> 
> > > That's because kdm is dead. I found sddm a little flakey. On my
> > > laptop it works more or less as expected, but on my desktop,
> > > selecting reboot or power off from the desktop drops me back to
> > > sddm without rebooting. I'm nit sure if this is an issue with
> > > sddm or plasma, maybe I'll try slim instead.  
> 
> > SDDM was doing that to me too until I created a default config.  
> 
> That appears to have worked, thanks.

I have a default config, but I can't reboot or shutdown from sddm.  If
I press one of those buttons, a 30-second timer starts.  Pressing more
buttons to try to skip the timer just restarts the timer.  Letting the
timer run down, it gets to zero then goes beyond, into negative
integers.  I can live with that;  it's rare that I want to shut down
from the login manager, and switching to a virtual terminal lets me
escape.